My son wrote me a card that said this: "I loav you, Mom. You're the beast!" Nothing sums me up better. Welcome to the Beast Mom blog!

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My blog has been kinda’ serious the past year hasn’t it? I don’t blog about silly stuff as much lately. I used to do that more. I think my mindset has been more serious though. I blame my novel project.
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I just finished a book called “The Normal One”. This author grew up with a special needs sibling. But the author does not like the term “special needs”. She feels all children have special needs and that it does not makes sense to apply the term only to particular children in a family. Instead of “special needs”, she prefers more direct, less softened terms like these:
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My sister-in-law and her husband are Food Network fans, just like us. Late last night we were watching a show on Singapore. And this red-hot-soupy-bone-marrow-sucking segment came on. It was GROSS! These two guys were using STRAWS to suck out bone marrow that was wallowing in blood-red soup!
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I love Halloween pumpkins. I’ll be carving some with the kids very soon. Today a friend sent me this link just for pre-Halloween kicks. Have fun carving funky designs and seeing your creation light up. The site is frivolous Halloween fun.
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Just finished reading a book called “Same Kind Of Different As Me”. It’s good. It reminds me to remember what’s most important in life. It reminds me that control is imaginary. It reminds me that life is short. It reminds me that everyone’s life matters and we should treat people as such. It reminds me that not everything is as it appears in our limited way of seeing things. It reminds me most of all that the spiritual realm exists – that God is real and that He uses ordinary people to help transform others’ lives. I think I needed that last piece of encouragement in particular – that one person’s faithful efforts can make a difference for the better. It’s not always easy to see evidence of that nor remember the truth of it.
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We have family coming into town tonight. So yesterday, I cleaned up the house. The kids cleaned their rooms and vacuumed. I did the same. And then I tackled the bathrooms. I did all the usual cleaning tasks, and then I changed our two toilet seats. They have been really nasty for a while – old, peeling, stained, etc.
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Yesterday, for Claire’s bday, she wanted to go bowling. So we went to a local bowling alley. I have to say that I stink at bowling. I can never break 100 pts. Today I got 74 as my high. Whoo-hoo! That’s actually GOOD for me.
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